Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1960)

Medal for Gen. Sarnoff • Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, chairman of RCA, receives the Medal of Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy from Ambassador Manlio Brosio (1.). The medal, a pendant, was presented to Gen. Sarnoff "in recognition of his meritorious collaboration with Guglielmo Marconi and the late Maestro Arturo Toscanini in the fields of radio and television and of his contributions to the development of telecommunications in Italy." Looking on at the presentation are (1. to r.) Mrs. George A. Brasa and Mrs. Gabriele Paresce, daughters of Marconi, and Mrs. Wanda Horowitz, daughter of Toscanini and wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz. • Robert Cato, Peter C. Fremd and Bill Levy appointed director of art and design, director of information service and director of advertising and sales promotion respectively, at Columbia Records, N.Y. • Oscar Rudolph joins Screen Gems as tv director. He has exclusive three year contract. Paul West, tv writer who has been working on Father Knows Best, joins Screen Gems to script new Bringing Up Mother series. Equipment & Eng'ring • Donald B. Sinclair, formerly vp and chief engineer of General Radio Co., West Concord, Mass., named executive vp and technical director. Arthur E. Thiessen, formerly vp, named board chairman; Ivan G. Easton, engineering manager, appointed vp for engineering and Harold M. Wilson, manufacturing manager. • Edward O. Johnson, formerly manager, advanced development at RCA Laboratories, Somerville, N.J., named chief engineer, RCA semiconductor and materials division. • Andrew D. Ring, consulting engineer of A.D. Ring & Assoc., Washington, suffered mild coronary thrombosis March 20 and is confined to Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Md. Mr. Ring was assistant chief engineer of FCC in charge of broadcasting during 1930's. • Jerrell R. Henry, formerly owner of KGRN Grinnell, to Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, both Iowa, as central region broadcast sales representatives. Government • Harry A. Babcock, executive director of Federal Trade Commission, resigns April 1 to join Washington law firm of Weaver & Glassie. Mr. Babcock. with FTC for more than 35 years, was director of the FTC's bureau of investigation before being appointed executive director in 1958. International • Victor F. Davies, director of accounting services of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Ottawa, Ont., named comptroller, succeeding A.M. Henderson, appointed auditor-general of Canada. Robert E. Keddy, director of organization of CBC, to director of personnel and organization. Guy Coderre, manager of personnel of Quebec region of CBC, to associate director of personnel and organization. • Gordon Sinclair, formerly newscaster of CFCF Montreal, named station manager of CFOX Pointe Claire, Que. • R.M. MacLennan, commercial manager of CJOB Winnipeg, Man., promoted to station manager. C.J. McCartney appointed production manager and G. McCloy named special events director. • W.A. Macdonald, special assistant to director of Prairie Region of CBC, Winnipeg, Man., named director of pr of CBC with headquarters at Ottawa. Ont. • Ray Arsenault, radio-tv producer of MacLaren Adv. Ltd., Toronto, Ont., to same post with Needham, Louis & Brorby of Canada Ltd., that city. Deaths • John R. Crowder, 75, senior partner and general manager of WERK Fayetteville, Tenn., died of cancer March 1 7. Mr. Crowder also was president and 331/3% owner of WMCP Columbia. Tenn. Previously, he had been major stockholder, officer and director of WHDM McKenzie and officer and director of WCOR Lebanon, both Tennessee. • Floyd H. (Woody) Woodworth, 73, formerly president of Astatic Corp.. Conneaut, Ohio, died March 1 5, in Venice, Fla. Mr. Woodworth, pioneer manufacturer of microphones and cartridges, was founder of Astatic and president from 1933 to 1952, when he retired. • Barton H. Cameron, 46, account executive with Young & Rubicam Chicago office, died there March 17 of heart attack. He joined Y&R in 1951 after tenure as partner of HooperCameron Inc., Chicago advertising agency. • Evelyn R. Vanderploeg. 55, radio-tv media director and timebuyer head at Arthur Meyerhoff Assoc., Chicago, died in Northwest Airlines plane crash March 1 7. • George L. Price, president of George L. Price Inc. (radio productions) Malibu, Calif., died March 2, of heart attack. • Thomas C. Foley, 38, manager of CFRA Ottawa, Ont., died March 17 in automobile collision in Toronto. He was applicant with Frank Ryan, owner of CFRA, for tv license at Ottowa. • Mrs. Dorothy Brazy, 61, president and executive director of KFMU(FM) Los Angeles until its sale to Metropolitan Theatres Corp. last year, died March 22. Survivors include son, Jacques, foreign representative of MCA-TV in Mexico City. 142 (FATES & FORTUNES) BROADCASTING, March 28, I960